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photon · 11-18-2010, 08:13 AM

You would see improved performance yes, close to double in a lot of cases. You loose the TRIM capability from the OS however as TRIM commands aren't passed through the RAID controller to the drives at this point.

This is less of an issue with the Vertex 2 and other Sandforce drives as they seem to take TRIM as a suggestion rather than a command, and they have built in garbage collection that seems to do nearly as good a job as TRIM so not a big loss I don't think.

The big issue is the issue with any RAID, is the risk of losing the array and all the data is much higher than a single drive, so make sure you have a good backup procedure.

I don't think anything special needs to be setup, just make sure you have a USB stick with the right driver for the RAID controller if Windows 7 doesn't have it built in (which it probably does). And make sure that you make the partitions through Windows 7 in the install process, it aligns them properly for max performance.

11-18-2010, 08:13 AM	#4
photon The new goggles also do nothing. Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Calgary Exp:	You would see improved performance yes, close to double in a lot of cases. You loose the TRIM capability from the OS however as TRIM commands aren't passed through the RAID controller to the drives at this point. This is less of an issue with the Vertex 2 and other Sandforce drives as they seem to take TRIM as a suggestion rather than a command, and they have built in garbage collection that seems to do nearly as good a job as TRIM so not a big loss I don't think. The big issue is the issue with any RAID, is the risk of losing the array and all the data is much higher than a single drive, so make sure you have a good backup procedure. I don't think anything special needs to be setup, just make sure you have a USB stick with the right driver for the RAID controller if Windows 7 doesn't have it built in (which it probably does). And make sure that you make the partitions through Windows 7 in the install process, it aligns them properly for max performance.